Toward a contemporary understanding of Pure Land Buddhism : creating a Shin Buddhist theology in a religiously plural world
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Toward a contemporary understanding of Pure Land Buddhism : creating a Shin Buddhist theology in a religiously plural world
(SUNY series in Buddhist studies)
State University of New York Press, 2000
- : hc : alk. paper
- : pbk : alk. paper
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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International Research Center for Japanese Studies Library
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Note
Includes index
Bibliography of related works by the contributors: p. 249-251
Description and Table of Contents
Description
2000CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Toward a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism offers proposals for creatively reinterpreting the Pure Land path. Japanese Pure Land thought brought about a major development in Buddhist tradition by evolving a path to enlightenment that is pursued while carrying on life in society. It is rooted in the Mahayana ideal of compassion and in the bodhisattva, or being of wisdom, who vows to ferry all living things to the other shore of awakening.
In this book, three Buddhist scholars utilize hermeneutic thought, process theology, and the mandala contemplation of Buddhism to address issues of modernity and religious values in the world today. In addition, the work proceeds to offer a new model of interreligious dialogue. Gordon D. Kaufman and John B. Cobb, Jr. reflect critically on the Buddhist proposals, drawing on their long experience as religious philosophers facing questions concerning the contemporary applicability of Christian thought.
Contributors include John B. Cobb, Jr., Dennis Hirota, Gordon D. Kaufman, Musashi Tachikawa, and John S. Yokota.
Table of Contents
A Note on the Format
Introduction
Dennis Hirota
Part One
Contemporary Interpretations of Pure Land Buddhist Tradition
1. Images of Reality in the Shin Buddhist Path
A Hermeneutical Approach
Dennis Hirota
2. Understanding Amida Buddha and the Pure Land
A Process Approach
John S. Yokota
3. Mandala Contemplation and Pure Land Practice: A Comparative Study
A Buddhological Approach
Musashi Tachikawa
Part Two
Responses from Two Western Religious Thinkers
4. Pure Land Buddhism Today
Some Methodological Issues in Recent Revisionist Interpretations
Gordon D. Kaufman
5. A Christian Critique of Pure Land Buddhism
John B. Cobb, Jr.
Part Three
Reconsiderations of Buddhist Theological Reflection
6. Dialogic Engagement and Truth
Dennis Hirota
7. A Call to Compassion
John S. Yokota
8. The World and Amida Buddha
Musashi Tachikawa
Afterword
Dennis Hirota
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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